Bye Bye Birdie-Irma La Douce
Studio album by
Chico Hamilton Quintet
Released1961
RecordedNovember 1960
GenreJazz
Length38:28
LabelColumbia CL 1590 / CS 8590
Chico Hamilton chronology
That Hamilton Man
(1959) 		Bye Bye Birdie-Irma La Douce
(1961) 		The Chico Hamilton Special
(1960)

Bye Bye Birdie-Irma La Douce (full title The Chico Hamilton Quintet Plays Selections from Bye Bye Birdie-Irma La Douce) is an album by drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton featuring jazz adaptations of tunes from the Broadway musicals Bye Bye Birdie and Irma La Douce recorded in 1960 and released on the Columbia label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

AllMusic rated the album two stars.[2]

Track listing

Side 1: All compositions by Marguerite Monnot

  1. "Irma La Douce" - 3:52
  2. "Our Language of Love" - 3:47
  3. "From a Prison Cell" - 4:01
  4. "She's Got the Lot" - 2:57
  5. "There Is Only One Paris for That" - 3:41

Side 2: All compositions by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams

  1. "A Lot of Livin' to Do" - 5:49
  2. "Baby, Talk to Me" - 3:06
  3. "Put On a Happy Face" - 2:42
  4. "How Lovely to Be a Woman" - 3:55
  5. "Kids!" - 2:38

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Charles Lloyd discography Archived 2018-03-19 at the Wayback Machine, accessed June 30, 2015
  2. ^ a b Allmusic listing accessed June 30, 2015


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